Abdelrahman Aboelella Aboelella itibaren Benzonia, MI, Združene države Amerike itibaren Benzonia, MI, Združene države Amerike

I like this story although; the characters got on my nerves some times! I love the voice of the narrator even more than the story. Mr. Stevens acted like a mindless robot at times. He doesn't have his own mind and his whole life revolved around Lord Darlington and Darlington Hall. He is stiff and unfeeling. It was no deal to him that his father was ill and dying. No deal to him that he had to fire 2 maids. No biggie to him that the housekeeper had some feelings for him. Come on, man!! Is Stevens a man or a robot?! Evan a slave will have some feelings and their thoughts. Only at the end of the story does Mr. Stevens have and show emotions. Kind of sad though.

This was more of a 3.5 star read. And not because the characterization was poor. It wasn't too bad actually. It was because the writing was so... average. Boring. Unexciting. This book takes place in the "alternate universe" created by the movie Star Trek: 2009 (in case the cover wasn't a dead give away). The synopsis says that Kirk is saving McCoy from being blamed. Well, the problem starts right away, but drags its feet until over half-way through the book when McCoy is "detained". In fact, there is little to no McCoy actually IN the book. And surprisingly, there's a lot of Uhura and Spock. Quite honestly, I kept reading only to see if they'd do anything more interesting with the characters, not because the story line intrigued me. Once McCoy is detained, there's a lot of nothing for 50 pages or so and then suddenly, as if in passing, the mystery is solved and resolved in under 30 pages. The end. The "love interest" for Kirk is nothing more than two-dimensional. Really quite lame actually, I didn't connect with her at all. I wouldn't have connected with anyone in the book if I hadn't already had an avid love for the characters. Worth your time? Maybe. But more than likely you will not finish it. Like I said, I only finished it because I kept hoping that futile hope that something, ANYTHING, would happen. And even though it didn't, I think I'm going to hold onto this book. Just for sentimental reasons.